Agreed. In many ways, Python is the most "boring" of the modern dynamic languages, in the sense that it trades exciting features and hip syntax for predictabili

Agreed. In many ways, Python is the most "boring" of the modern dynamic languages, in the sense that it trades exciting features and hip syntax for predictability and elegance. So it gets a lot of the productivity, conciseness, and power of other dynamic languages without nearly as much cognitive dissonance for people familiar with C or Java.